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Being on the field during the celebrations was the strangest part of it all to be honest – because that was their moment.

In truth, I was in bed by 10.30pm on the night Hull FC won the Challenge Cup at Wembley.

I can at least look back with pride that I was involved in a group who achieved something very special – and with Radders, a Hull lad, as coach, and two more in Andy Last and Richard Horne alongside him in the backroom staff, the enormity of that season and that achievement should really never be forgotten. For that, I'll forever be proud and forever be grateful.

That whole Wembley experience was probably the lowest moment in my rugby career though, I can't lie. It was a day where I didn't get a chance to play and I didn't even get to go on the team bus down to Wembley.

I had to go on the one down there with all the wives and children of the players, so that was a pretty sobering moment. I didn't stay with the team and all that and by that point I had just had enough.

It was easily the lowest ebb of my career. So I missed all the celebrations and came in refreshed.

Radders gave me the captaincy for the game after Wembley and we played against Saints and that was nice.

At the end of the day, they won the game against Warrington at Wembley, so it must have been the right call.

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